Back when I was a sparky apprentice in DK, the law/rules on how to wire a house had a paragraph about wiring a bathroom. You could fit a non water proof mains socket in the shower if it was 165cm above ground.

Back when I was a sparky apprentice in DK, the law/rules on how to wire a house had a paragraph about wiring a bathroom. You could fit a non water proof mains socket in the shower if it was 165cm above ground.

These photos above reminds me of what I saw in Patagonia. This photos is one of the ls one of the smaller and best kept main junctions hanging low over the main road. Often wires of random stuff is hanging down and touching the road, could be a main, extension or phone line. Yes there is a normal extension cord in this "nut". I saw one fella just cut the insulation of a main wire, while it was live, and twisted a new lead to it to have a simple light outside. He was one of the more highly qualified sparky's as he used electrical tape after, well it was outside after all.

While in Patagonia I did read that they were trying to do something about it. Because a young girl died after running across a lawn and there was an extension cord in a puddle.

Mr Bull is believed to have plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest while using the phone, the Sun reports.He suffered severe burns on his chest, arm and hand when the charger touched the water and died on 11 December, the newspaper said.

Mr Bull is believed to have plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest while using the phone, the Sun reports.He suffered severe burns on his chest, arm and hand when the charger touched the water and died on 11 December, the newspaper said.

Cheers. I had mistakenly assumed that he just had the phone and its attached lead in the bath with him, rather than the entire charger and the socket it was plugged in to.

I had been wondering how it happened - I’ve read stories about kids chewing on the ends of live phone charger cables and coming to no lasting harm, so I was curious. But apparently, even though there is only 5V and 2A involved, it is theoretically possible for the phone and lead alone to kill you if you have it in the bath with you.

Mr Bull is believed to have plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest while using the phone, the Sun reports.He suffered severe burns on his chest, arm and hand when the charger touched the water and died on 11 December, the newspaper said.

Cheers. I had mistakenly assumed that he just had the phone and its attached lead in the bath with him, rather than the entire charger and the socket it was plugged in to.

I had been wondering how it happened - I’ve read stories about kids chewing on the ends of live phone charger cables and coming to no lasting harm, so I was curious. But apparently, even though there is only 5V and 2A involved, it is theoretically possible for the phone and lead alone to kill you if you have it in the bath with you.

I would have thought he was killed by the mains extension socket touching the bath water, not from the USB charger and lead.

But "Coroner warning after man electrocuted in bath charging iPhone" or "Man dies charging iPhone while in the bath" is more headline grabbing though.

I had been wondering how it happened - I’ve read stories about kids chewing on the ends of live phone charger cables and coming to no lasting harm, so I was curious. But apparently, even though there is only 5V and 2A involved, it is theoretically possible for the phone and lead alone to kill you if you have it in the bath with you.

The phone and charger are irrelevant, other than explaining why someone decided to take a bath with a live mains extension lead.

That said, it's possible for the output of a badly designed/constructed charger to become live. This is why we don't use cheap no-name power supplies without first taking them to bits and confirming they're not deadly.

The phone and charger are irrelevant, other than explaining why someone decided to take a bath with a live mains extension lead.

I realise this now, but prior to this realisation, I had thought from my cursory read of the story elsewhere (and the coroner’s comments, notably his plan to write to Apple) that it was only the phone and the end of the charger lead that he took a bath with.

That prompted some Googling and a few posts here and there suggested it was indeed theoretically possible to achieve this unfortunate result without the mains itself contacting the water, even with a legitimate charger.